When preparing my Movie Poster of the book “Hate List” I was deciding who the main characters were in the book so far. The main characters I think is Valerie, Nick, Valerie’s mom: Jenny, Valerie’s dad: Ted, Dr. Bill Dentley, Dr. Rex Hieler, and Detective Panzella.
All of these characters have some praise or criticism of one another in the book. Valerie was getting picked on by her classmates at Garvin High School and her boyfriend Nick, was praising her by thinking of making “The Hate List”. Valerie is not being praised by all the characters in the book because they think she has something to do with The Hate List because her boyfriend, Nick killed the students in the cafeteria. Well come to realize it, the book finally mentioned that Valerie was the one that came up with the Hate List. She started thinking of people she disliked and jotted the name down in the notebook. Nick thought it was a great idea to add names that he disliked as well. Nick was criticizing his enemies in the book by killing each of the ones on the list.
Valerie’s mom, Jenny thinks Valerie is crazy in the head and knows she has something to do with the shooting. Jenny made Valerie go back to school after the shooting happened and was criticizing her the whole time because she disliked her boyfriend Nick and knew him as “The Murderer”.
Valerie’s dad Ted doesn’t praise Valerie in the book so far because he thinks she’s crazy in the head too. Her dad is hardly home because he is a lawyer. Jenny and Ted have relationship issues, they criticize Valerie that she has issues and her boyfriend is no good because he shot the students. But I do think the parents praise her while she’s in the hospital because there by her side and want the best for her.
Dr. Bill Dentley is the staff psychiatrist at Garvin General and suggested that Valerie enters an inpatient residential program so she can get help to battle the suicidal urges. She will have group therapy, individual therapy, and medication to help the suicidal urges. Her parents and Dr. Bill Dentley think she’s suicidal because she lost her boyfriend since he killed himself after he killed the students and she doesn’t have anybody to cope with. Dr. Bill Dentley showed criticism and praise because the criticism was not having her make the decision if she wanted to enter the program, but in return he wants the best for her so he praised her by making her get help in the program.
Dr. Rex Hieler is her other psychiatrist that helped her talk while attending Garvin High School. In the beginning, he was praising her most because he was there for her whenever she needed to talk because in the beginning of the book Valerie didn’t seem close anybody but Nick.
Detective Panzella was the brown-suited male that was at Valerie’s bed side when she woke up in the hospital. He seemed like he showed a lot of criticism to Valerie because he was asking her a lot of questions every day when she was in the hospital. He was trying to get the “right story” out of Valerie because he is the detective and needs to find out if she was involved or not.
All of these characters showed criticism and praise with Valerie and I’ll have to see if they continue doing this in the rest of the book.
Interesting approach, Bri. Most bloggers write their personal criticisms and praises for the characters rather than identify the way the characters criticized or praised others.
ReplyDeleteThis gave me a new way of looking at things.